expense的第三人称单数是：expenses。expense的意思是n.费用；花费；代价。expense【近义词】charge。
一、详尽释义点此查看expense的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.花费;费用;开支
Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something.
e.g. He's bought a specially big TV at vastexpense so that everyone can see properly...
他花大价钱买了一台特别大的电视机，这样每个人都能看清楚。
e.g. To avoid extraexpense and mess later on, try to decide on fittings before the plastering's finished...
为避免将来出现额外的开支和不必要的麻烦，尽量在抹灰完工之前把固定设施确定下来。
2.（由雇主报销的）开支，费用，业务费用
Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards.
e.g. As a member of the International Olympic Committee her fares and hotel expenses were paid by the IOC...
作为国际奥林匹克委员会的成员，她的交通费用和酒店住宿费用都由国际奥委会支付。
e.g. Can you claim this back on expenses?
这个你能报销吗？
3.由…付费
If you do somethingat someone'sexpense, they provide the money for it.
e.g. Should architects continue to be trained for five years at publicexpense?...
建筑师是否应该继续接受5年的公费培训呢？
e.g. Teachers who signed up did so out of personal choice and at their ownexpense.
报名的教师完全出于自愿而且费用自理。
4.拿…开玩笑;以…为嘲弄的对象
If someone laughs or makes a jokeat yourexpense, they do it to make you seem foolish.
e.g. I think he's having fun at ourexpense.
我想他在拿我们寻开心。
5.以牺牲…的利益为代价
If you achieve somethingat the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.
expense的翻译
e.g. But skeptics worry that costs may be trimmed at theexpense of the patient...
但是持怀疑态度的人担心费用的削减会以牺牲病人的利益为代价。
e.g. According to this study, women have made notable gains at theexpense of men.
根据这项研究，女性以牺牲男性的利益为代价而获得了显著的收益。
6.以…为代价
If you say that someone does somethingat the expense of another thing, you are expressing concern at the fact that they are not doing the second thing, because the first thing uses all their resources.
e.g. They are worth having but not at theexpense of better services...
它们值得拥有，但是不能因此放弃更好的服务。
e.g. The orchestra has more discipline now, but at theexpense of spirit.
那个管弦乐团现在更有纪律性了，却丧失了灵魂。
7.花（大笔）钱做
If yougo to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If yougo to greatexpense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
expense的解释
e.g. Why go to theexpense of buying an electric saw when you can hire one?...
既然可以租电锯，为什么要花大价钱买一个呢？
e.g. It was said that he went to greatexpense to install a lift in the building.
据说他花费巨资在大楼里安装了一台电梯。
8. to spare noexpense -> see spare
四、例句
It's too much of an expense for me to own a car.
对我来说，拥有一辆汽车的花费太大。
Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being.
社会应尽力挽救每一动植物物种,不管花费多少人力、时间和财力。
Don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense.
勿做不必要的花费。
He finished the job at the expenses of his health.
他以牺牲健康完成了这项工作。
That's why a reduction in price can never be made at the expense of quality.
正因为如此,降低价格的同时,并不能以牺牲质量为代价。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
This exuberance of money displayed itself in wantonness of expence.
出自：S. JohnsonThe protein issue..was now insufficient for full normal expense of energy.
出自：U. Le Guin七、词源解说
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